Marco Rubio enters the presidential race with earnest, positive speech
Apr 14, 2015, 3:46 PM | Updated: Apr 15, 2015, 6:01 am
Republican Marco Rubio officially announced his presidential candidacy in Miami on Monday. (AP)
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Taken from Tuesday’s edition of The David Boze Show.
Another candidate jumped into the 2016 presidential race – Marco Rubio giving an impassioned and earnest speech to announce his candidacy.
I agreed with Roger Simon of Pajamas Media – it was an almost heartwarming, nervous speech. There were a couple of moments where he just had this little bit of nervousness, not that he wasn’t solid in his presentation, but there were a couple of moments where his tongue kind of got tied up. There was just enough to give it a little bit of humanity. It didn’t make it an inarticulate speech, it made it a less saccharine speech.
First of all, what you take away from all of this is how young he is. He’s 43 years old and he has a very fresh-faced appearance. He’s very positive in his outlook. Much of his speech was remarking about American exceptionalism, about this idea that we come from a country where hope and the American Dream are possible. It was probably the most positive speech that we’ve seen so far.
In terms of outlining the problems that the U.S. faces, he did it all in this direction where it was showing America that there is still a place to go and still an exceptional future for her. He also was positive when laying out the story – the reasons why America is such a wonderful place and tying that into his family’s story.
That was probably the most powerful portion of his speech – this idea that if your parents are born into poverty, in most of the world that’s where you stay.
With Rubio, his focus was on the American story. Both of his parents could come here from families that were dealing with poverty, his father could end up being a bartender, his mother could be a maid, both could work several jobs, and all four of their kids can end up in vastly better situations with futures. That would not have been possible where they are from.
When he’s speaking about the American Dream, you can tell it moves him, and he is moving when he is doing so.
Taken from Tuesday’s edition of The David Boze Show.
